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  1. Re:I'd just like to know... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on 'Cosmo' — a C#-Based Operating System

    "Obviously C wasn't used to build the OS that C was built on."

    Actually.... C was pretty much was made as the language they were implementing Unix in (which was, of course, the operating system that C was built on. The big difference here is that C compiles natively to a lower-level, and has the escape clause of inline assemblier (allowing an operating system to be '95% C, 5% assembly').

    C#, on the other hand, compiles to MSIL, which can't run on native hardware.

    Turns out in this project they then use their own 'IL2CPU' to produce NASM source which is then assembled into native binaries. My gut feeling is there is a handful of methods that are tagged [MethodImpl(MethodImplOptions.InternalCall)] or [MethodImpl(MethodImplOptions.Unmanaged)] and the actual implementations are written in assembly files, depending on how exactly their customised Mono impelementation works.

  2. Re:Old news by burisch_research · · Score: 1 · on 'Cosmo' — a C#-Based Operating System

    There haven't been any updates to the site in many months. Dead links left and right.

    Last release was a year ago. From http://www.gocosmos.org/index.en.aspx :

    Aug 3, 2010 - MS5 released
          There are bugs! - But we didn't want to hold MS5 any longer since MS4 was released 9 months ago.

    That's 13 months without a release. And this is news how?

    This is brought to you by Chad Z. Hower, a.k.a. "Kudzu", of ICS (Dephi Internet Connection Suite) fame, and other things.

  3. Re:Screenshots by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on 'Cosmo' — a C#-Based Operating System

    Or on their website (once you fix their URL).

  4. Re:.Net Programmers Shouldn't be so Upset by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1 · on Devs Worried Microsoft Will Dump .NET

    Why are they all whining.

    They should hop on board on Cosmos and roll out their own OS's all in vanilla .NET.

    It's the lifecycle in IT: you are cutting edge or you evolve (other function, other job, training, ...) or you maintain. It're the rules in a dynamic system with thousands and millions trying to push the edge further.

  5. Re:Kolibri: a Menuet offshoot by ZeroExistenZ · · Score: 1 · on Behind Menuet, an OS Written Entirely In Assembly
    Why did they at KolibriOS tried to mimic XP?

    Look at the menubar in blue and the startbutton in green...

    I don't find the XP interface so superb and renewing it should be kopied. I would rather praise new attempts at intuitive navigation. This and the file navigator thingie has been done over and over again...

    It's also a bit against creative innovation; people want opensource, but get them at it and they try to rebuild Microsoft, while they continiously bash Microsoft and never seem to get at such a level?

    Build something truely amazing and innovative and I'll hop on and spend some of my spare time contributing.

    Right now I'm rather waiting for http://gocosmos.org/ to have rewritten their compiler.